₦airaland Forum

stzy:
Did. This government remove subsidy ordid they just increase the price?

No subsidy was removed. The FG only claimed that it had no Forex to issue out to petroleum marketers at the rate of N199 to $1. So what FG is saying in essence is that the marketers should source Forex at the rate of $1 to N298 for the purpose of importation of petrol.

This simply shows that the FG has been forced to devalue the Naira even though it still makes the zombies live in fool's paradise where they claim that the official rate of Naira is 199 to a dollar.

A big thanks to Dygeasy for his recent post that graced front page and also, a big thanks to Nairaland for making it possible for his voice to be heard. Knowing fully well that our outcry on the internet can now be heard/read, I want to use this opportunity to register my gross disappointment with Glo Network. I'm not expecting any refund or some appeasement from Glo but I think it is best I register my displeasure before I dispose off my sim card or stop recharging it, after the expiration of my recent data subscription.

Firstly, I have used Glo constantly, for more than 2 years for both internet subscription (N2,500 on regular basis and I sometimes exhaust my data before month end) and for calls. Therefore it is bad for a network I've used for this long to deliver terrible services to its subscribers and to also secretly subscribe its customers to some fraudulent messaging services. During the period I dropped my Etisalat sim card because of the issue I had with them, I didn't know such a website like this existed, I would have gladly joined and registered my disappointment for public consumption.
The list below outlines, in the shortest possible form, the issues I experienced using Glo:

1. Terrible Call Services: It is normal for Glo to shutdown their services at certain times in the name of network upgrade. I do also experience network issues most times when I make calls in the evenings. Also, I do have to suspend making calls whenever there's a slight chance that rain will fall.

2. Terrible Data Services: Cheap but further proves that cheap services comes with their hitches. I've once failed a job online CBT, sometimes last year, because Glo decided to carry out upgrade and shutdown their data services for two whole weeks. After all my complaints/rants to their customer care agents and their apologies, I continued patronizing Glo. Glo network is also very good at shutting down their data services whenever there's a slight chance that rain will fall.

3. Poor Nationwide Coverage: I feel that Glo has the least nationwide 3G coverage. It would have helped matters if their Edge (2G) network is a little bit effective but alas, their edge network is more terrible than the Econet and MTN GPRS (G) of old (during the times of internet launch in Nigeria). I noticed Glo network is terrible in some parts of Benin City (3rd Junction and Sapele Rd areas), Zaria (some parts of ABU), Onitcha, Abuja (Apo District), etc.

4. Unsolicited Calls and SMS: Since Glo didn't kill me with their unsolicited calls and SMS (including packages I never subscribed for but was billed for and sent messages for a very long time without knowing), no other network will kill me. MTN (the masters of this dreadful and traumatizing act) even tried in the aspect of unsolicited calls and SMS because I once called MTN customer care and complained about it, which they worked on then, even though they didn't stop it completely. However, in the case of Glo, I have registered my disappointment in that regards but nothing was ever done. They continued disturbing me with their useless programmed calls and SMS.

5. Probably the Worst Customer Care Service in Nigeria: I have never contacted Glo customer care during the times of 6:00am to 12:00am and was attended to quickly. Glo customer care probably has a constant and minimum time frame of 30 minutes. I must give credit to Airtel and MTN that upgraded their customer service and hardly exceed the time frame of between 5 - 10 minutes before attending to customers.

Apart from these issues I've been experiencing from Glo, the last straw that broke the elephant's back was the recent happening. I have been in the village attending to some business for a month now. This has made it difficult for me to access the internet at times. Baring in mind that I couldn't use up my last subscription of N2,500 for 4.5GB (now upgraded to 5.0GB) of data, I recharged some money to get my balance to N2,530 in order for my subscription to be automatically renewed.

I still had over 2.5GB of data and was hoping that after the auto renewal, I'd have about 7.5GB to use up when I get back to Lagos. Unknowingly for me, Glo had other plans as they deducted N50 for some scam SMS package they forcefully subscribed me to. This actually dropped my airtime to N2,480 and thus, made my automatic renewal impossible. As a result, I lost my 2.5GB of data.

This angered me seriously and I had to summon up courage (making a 30 minutes call in this period of epileptic power supply is not one bit easy) to call their customer care at the expense of my phone battery. That was when I was told that N50 was deducted for some SMS package I never subscribed for. I was furious and then expected the customer care to tell me that my data and my money will be restored only for her to offer only apologies as the supposed remedy to their incompetence and fraud while also telling me that she has forwarded a complain to have them cancel the SMS package. I had to borrow credit from them, which I don't intend paying back, in order to be able to do my subscription.

If I could stop using Etisalat for browsing (even though they offered the fastest internet connection) simply because they only didn't remind me about my data expiration date and also because their data was expensive back then (I did a subscription of N10,000 for 10GB and was renewing it monthly with a N1,000 for 250MB), then why continue with Glo that offers one of the worst services I've ever used and still scams me. I do also think that our generally poor/terrible consumer behaviour (based on we accepting whatever rubbish being dished out to us even if we pay heavily for it) and the lack of efforts made by monitoring organization like NCC fuels these poor service delivery.

I hereby state on here that, in this life or the next, I will never recharge my Glo sim again. Even if I don't dispose off the sim, its only function will be to receive calls and thank goodness I haven't started printing out my business card and fliers that has my Glo number on them.

Note: below is the text message I received from glo this afternoon (like a care):

Cc Seun, Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy..

Ashleyma77:
Nigerians should just chill.I know its not easy but the road to success is never a smooth one.all these will be thongs of the past in a decades time.
suffer now so u enjoy later.
I'm no zombie but I believe when u are rock bottom,you can only float upwards...

The silliest comment/statement I've ever read in my life!

Let me handcuff your hands and chain your legs, plus tie you up with a big rock on your back before dropping you into a sea, river or an ocean, then let's see how you hit rock bottom and still float upwards...

kbams241:
You see? Another igbo.

Many are mentally unstable but only a few use the internet...

amtaken:
This is the only thing I hate about Akwa Ibom State. They can accuse people of this kind of a thing so easily. The fake pastors are not helping matters.

There was a man whose wife died and he accused his mother of being a witch who killed the wife. He almost harmed the mother but for his elder brother's intervention. Unknown to him, a family member who worked as a midwife at the UNIUYO Teaching Hospital found out from the hospital that his wife died of AIDS related illness. It also happened that the wife was a widow before he married her. As per the cause of death of her first husband, your guess is as good as mine.


That was also how a distant relative of mine told my dad that his step mother killed his 2 young children, that my dad should have the woman arrested and dealt with. My dad told him he would do that but first of all he would want him and his wife to go for medical tests to ascertain if their blood was clean. The man ran!


It is not as if witches do not exist. They do but sometimes people exaggerate.

I just hate all these stories of witches and wizards. Don't believe in them.

DropShot:
Thanks to the Ineffectual Buhari you mean?

Yes!

Burger01:
^^^
A witch cried yesterday, man pikin died today.. Na who kill man pikin

Na Dullhari!!

[quote author=PharmAlfred post=45733540][/quote]You and KYjelly2 made a whole lot of sense and it's only foolish bigot heads that wouldn't see the sense in your posts..

Dygeasy:
Hi everyone,

Earlier today I created a thread complaining about how about 3gig of my data was wiped by unjustly on my MTN SIM. HERE,

https://www.nairaland.com/3109694/untrustworthiness-mtn-new-data-plans

I was contacted by some MTN agents and also received emails. Also got a phone call from MTN Customer Care line 180 confirming that my data was indeed wiped. Their customer care agent's told me last night and this morning that I truly used the data.

Well, five minutes ago, I received a text and then a phone call confirming the reinstatement of my data. I got back 3.5gig in addition to the 600mb that was left last night making 4.1gig.

Thank you Nairaland, Seun and Moderators (Lalasticlala & Dominique)

Thanks to every customer who have suffered the same that aired their grievances on the thread. You all corroborated my story.

Thank you MTN for taking one customer out of millions seriously.

I have my data back and I am happy now.

Laveda, isn't it good to be hopeful?

Thank you JideSM &Multimillionsna

Glo is far worst than MTN. But I couldn't take that act of criminality after calling their customer care and they telling me there is nothing they can do. I had to borrow credit of 450 (for N500) to complete my amount so that I do the 2.5k subscription (my last subscription before I throw away that useless line). They can go look for the sim card, then take it to my account officer and demand for their N500 back. Useless bunch of crooks!

Pmajor15:
http://ratednaija.com/dapper-windscreen-cleaner-spotted-abeokuta-gets-job-offer/

Uche Nnaji, I love this your marketing strategy sha...

kikies:
U think dose who sit at home jst like sitting at home,u'd b helping a lot more if u can suggest wat der can do,dntcha tink so?

Your writing is terrible. Very difficult to understand because of omitted words and excessive shortening.. Wonder how people that liked your comment were able to comprehend all those stuff you typed like dntcha (sounds more like donkuwa ), der, etc...

Keneking:
What about CD

And your kind, a zombified robotics to help with house chores...?

Reasonable comment here:

socialmediaman:
Seriously misplaced priority. They should focus on improving postal delivery services with technology, completing the postal/zip code system so that every house in Nigeria can be identified with a zip code, acquiring more delivery vans, improve their customer service delivery with exceptional call center executives and "always available" help centers, and also improving their tracking systems. They can fight the competition with private firms like Fedex, and become the no 1 choice of delivery for online ordering

Unlike this one:

989900B:
Na now una wake? They've been losing billions!
All these useless banks funding oil companies, why can't they make a bid for a company like NIPOST -- this is a multi-billion dollar money making enterprise rendered virtually useless!

You expect NIPOST to do effectively what US postal service does when they've not even been able to carry out their primary functions effectively.. NIPOST should rather be scrapped with the buildings sold off to baba ijebu...

xandy84:
United state postal service issue American passport and that makes it easy and stress free cos postal service is everywhere even the remote part. That's a good development..

modelmike7:
I believe in Buhari. He meant good for this country... Carry me dey go, Buhari carry me dey go dey go dey go . . . .

Until he carry you enter cesspit ba? Hahahahahahahahahaha! Orishi-rishi

donphilopus:
Do I even need to dignify you with a response? You can continue blabbing. Who takes people who are bereft of ideas like you seriously? Definitely not me! Stop stalking me.

He is bereft of ideas but yet miles ahead of you and your omenka in matters arising. Simple current happenings, una no sabi but yet be forming super brilliant. I wonder what kinda grade y'all graduated with from the Uni self.. Probably a pass degree, 3rd class or second class lower...

GWMI:
We don't need FG's proposal.It is either it is N85 or LET THE STRIKE START NOW.thanks.

Hahahahahahaha! Omo see vexation! I'm both solidly and liquidly behind this your proposition brov!

omenka:
Lol. These guys make one miss being in the opposition honestly. Dem no just get any sense at all.

If no be Barca and Dearpreye wey dey assist their ministry small small, opposition for no dey nairaland.

Ogbeni shut your trap jor! After displaying gross ignorance, you're here claiming don! Rubbishes!

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Go get informed and stop displaying ignorance because the government has even explained how it arrived at that price while you're here still waiting for explanation..

donphilopus:
Lol. . .Peeps like Severe-Anus-Shape na Buhari is a burukutu sipping bastard them just sabi. .They're just so daft!

Severussnape is light years ahead of you and your omenka way no sabi follow simple news..

achikefifty:
Are you also stylishly wailing?

Don't mind that Omenka, the chief of the zombified squad. He can't claim not to have seen such comments flowing in and out of front page threads regarding fuel price hike. But his fellow zombified fellows are always quick to tell you that the marketers will be sourcing for forex from other sources (and not the usual N199 pa $1) and not at the official rate so the price, N145, is the best.

So I ask, if marketers of such an important commodity (that has the capacity to cripple our economy if by any means scarce) can't source for forex at the official rate from the FG, then what's the point saying that Naira is 199 to a dollar? It means that the currency has been officially devalued. Dullhary is the most confused human being the works has ever seen.

Thank God I don't have a zombie brain tho...
And I also think he should be the one trying to do the bolded

omenka:
Wailers, make una try get small sense so una go fit put us, and perhaps, the government, on our toes. Throwing insults around and getting tens of likes wouldn't get you lot anywhere.

This also shows that omenka isn't well informed:

Government needs to tell us why it is 145 and not 103.

donphilopus:
You need to take the wailers a course on how to be an opposition (party). Nice one bruv!

Hahahahahaha! See them praising/hailing mediocrity!

Hahahahahahahaha! Nigeria is finished with these kinds of Fula Yoots!

madridguy:
Say YES to Strike

Say YES to Salary Increment.

YESSSSSSSS!

I say yes to both unless the useless FG drops the price to N100 per litre!

Nicur:
kudos to Buhari! Libyans invading omenka 's state !! smh. ARE THE PEOPLE OF BENUE NOT NIGERIANS?? omenka wake up and defend your people!! lalasticlala and mynd44 wetin dey happen? why are Nigerians dying in large numbers everyday yet our president is doing nothing!!

Omenka is not from Benue. He's probably from the core northern part of the country...

Good move! I only wish schools will use same measure used for students on their fraudulent staffs and the bribe receiving and sex demanding ones.

Nusaf:
Lying electronically. Who wrote sherrifat? It is lies like these that dominate the comments of the wailers.

And it is praise singing of mediocrity like the one you do, that dominates the comments of zombs...

A govt finding it difficult to pay corps members and further delaying their posting, is here again to make claims of of something the promised during campaigns and denied outrightly after winning election, only to resurface and continue with the useless promises again but you have swallowed it again. Tufiakwa!

mira4u:
to help people in this current hardship you say? The hardship he caused you mean? Besides, what can 5000 naira a month do for anyone already facing the hardship when the price of everything has sky rocketed. Who will 5000 naira a month sustain when the price of our common garri sef don rise. It's just to shut the masses up jor, no more no less.

Lol the politicians will still put some of the money in their Ghana must go and Nigeria must stay bag as far as they are the ones in charge of distribution of the money(bribe) abi no be naija again?

You have a brain and can reason.. Zombies only have watermelons on their necks, so don't expect anything meaningful from APC zombies...

Nusaf:
What percentage of this figure was directly empowered or assisted by ur hero? Obasanjo attempted it (NAPEP) but it failed because corruption was reigning supreme and now a new sheriffat is in town. If u like advise youth in your area, for whom some of the social intervention programmes are meant, not to participate.

OK!

Timolanki:
For some zombies, gullible Nigerians n buhari play toys that will engulf this trash hook, line and sinker, i pity u.

Believe whatever APC (All Promises Cancelled) tells u at ur own peril.

Hahahahahaha! It's sad that the core zombies have not yet understood this man called Dullhari and APC. These same promises were made and denied only for them to reintroduce it now that they have almost doubled fuel price. This is nothing but a cheap attempt to make Nigerians (especially their zombies) to swallow the fuel price hike and in a few months from now, they will give reasons why the can't meet up with this their claims again. By then Nigerians would have been so used to the fuel price that they wouldn't even want to think of protesting or complaining..